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Steven Bagheri is an associate in Shulman Rogers’ Landlord-Tenant Group. He focuses his practice on residential and commercial landlord-tenant matters and related real estate litigation, representing property owners and businesses throughout Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia.

Steven Bagheri focuses his practice on residential and commercial landlord-tenant law and related real estate litigation, representing property owners and businesses throughout Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia. 

With more than six years of litigation experience, Steven advises clients on lease interpretation disputes, nonpayment issues, habitability claims, consumer protection matters, and other lease-related conflicts. He has handled hundreds of matters from intake through resolution, regularly serving as sole counsel at bench trials. His approach is efficient and strategic, always with an eye toward cost-effective resolution, while staying fully prepared to litigate when that’s what the situation requires it. 

Before joining Shulman Rogers, Steven built a broad litigation foundation representing commercial landlords, businesses, and individuals in landlord-tenant disputes, contract litigation, and consumer protection matters throughout the Washington metro area. His experience in general liability and federal court litigation informs how he assesses risk and develops strategy across a wide range of disputes. 

Steven earned his J.D. from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law on a merit-based leadership scholarship. In law school, he served as a student-attorney in the Criminal Records/Reentry Clinic, as a research fellow for the Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. Center for Education, Justice and Ethics, and as a judicial intern for the Honorable Irma S. Raker (Ret.) of the Supreme Court of Maryland. 

Steven grew up in Montgomery County and lives in Bethesda with his wife.